Kevin's Watch

Thank you for the welcome Avatar. I really didn't like Starship Troopers much either, but I'm very picky. I didn't see Nigfhtfall.
Sorry Rincewond. I meant the first movie they made, not the mini-series. I hope that was done better. (I didn't see it). I read the books and I liked them, but that movie was just strange. I'm sure if I thought about it more, I would come up with other movies taken from books that were bad. That was just the first one I thought of.

i have to insert in this conversation that i LOVED the movie Starship Troopers because i felt that Verhoven (director) REALLY REALLY understood Heinlein's sense of humor and exaggerated characterizations. I felt Verhoven paid tribute to that aspect of Heinlein's writing so i loved it! got a big kick out of "seeing" the things i'd imagined!!

Spoiler

(inCLUDing Heinlein's insistance that EVERY woman in the place has gigantic bazooms!!!hahahahaha!!)

loved it.

I liked Starship Troopers. It was a great satire, and I never much cared for Heinlein anyway, so the inaccuracies wouldn't have bothered me even if I had read the book in question.

If you'd all read the book, instead of only the movie, you'd realise that the movie missed the entire point of the book, which, while it was satire, was a social and political one.

Far too much emphasis on the "shoot-em up" aspect in the movie, as far as I was concerned.

While there were subtle elements of that satire, not only were they comically portrayed, but they were not the focus of it.

(And while I agree that the miniseries was marginally better than the David Lynch movie, it was only marginally. )

--A

um...'scuze me Avatar, i DID read the book! and i STILL liked the movie.


(paul verhoven made the movie i saw...don't know what david lynch you're referring to)

That was the Dune movie I was talking about.

Sorry, I must have been talking to the others, because you clearly mentioned you'd read it.

Ah well, one mans meat and all that...

--A

I liked Starship Troopers as well. and it is more relevant today than when it come out. and yes, the women are nice eye candy.